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Foz do Iguaçu -IGUASSU FALLS- 3 Nights Tour Package

FOZ DO IGUAÇU 3 NIGHTS
INCLUDES:
-ROUND TRIP AIRFARE FROM RIO DE JANEIRO
-BUSINESS HOTEL 3 STAR BASED ON DBL
-VISITS THE FALLS OF THE ARGENTINE AND BRAZILIAN SIDE
-TOUR PARK OF THE BIRDS
-DUTY FREE SHOPPING ARGENTINE SIDE
- ENGLISH OR SPANISH TOUR GUIDE

-One of the seven natural wonders of the planet, the Iguaçu Falls are located in the section of the Iguaçu River that borders Brazil and Argentina. The election that guaranteed the title to the Falls was organized by the Swiss foundation New Seven Wonders, in a process that began in 2007, with the participation of 400 attractions, of which 28 passed the stage that culminated in 2011 with the election of the seven winners. The Iguaçu Falls were first reported by a white man in 1542. Spanish explorer Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca moved from the coast of Santa Catarina towards Asunción, in Paraguay, a city newly founded by previous expeditions, when Encountered the grandeur of the waterfalls.

Eleanor Roosevelt, then First Lady of the United States, compared with an exclamation the Iguazu Falls with the falls that her country shares with Canada: "Poor Niagara!" (Poor Niagara!).

It is certainly what any tourist who has visited Niagara will think and then know the falls of the Iguaçu River. Larger and twice as wide as Niagara, the Iguazu Falls are unique. And its multiple beauties enchant even the most insensitive to natural beauties

The Falls form in falls of 18 kilometers before the Iguaçu River flows into the Paraná River. There, a difference of terrain forms falls of 65 meters of height, in average, that extend for 2,780 meters of width, the greater part (1,900 meters) in Argentine territory.
Depending on the flow of the river, the number of jumps varies from 150 to 300 and the height of the falls from 40 to 82 meters. The Iguaçu Falls discharge about 1.5 million liters of water per second during normal periods. But this volume varies from 500 thousand liters, in times of drought, to 6.5 million liters, during the flood periods of the Iguaçu River.

The Falls have 19 main jumps, three of them in Brazil and the others in Argentina, but aimed at the observer who is on the Brazilian side. The jump that most catches the attention of visitors is the Devil's Throat, a deep crevice caused by erosion, where the main part of the Falls falls laterally. The Devil's Throat is almost 85 meters high and its shape resembles a horseshoe ..

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